Wednesday, August 1, 2012

The 2012 Pets on Quilts Show is here!

PLEASE READ all of the post today -- you want to be sure that you know the rules and know how to play!

Today is the day! I'm so excited that I already fell right off my lilypad! This is it! The Best Show on Earth -- the 2012 Pets on Quilts Show!

Today is the start of a whole lot of fun and fellowship -- quilters from all over the world are going to post in our great, big linky party, and all of you can hop and bop to see all of the wonderful pets, quilts, and new bloggy friends!

Our sponsors are ready --- Snoodles and I are ready --- I sure hope you are ready!!

I have my pencil and my notebook, and I'm comfy here on one of Snoodles' quilts:

I want to keep track of the ones that I like the best -- even tho I can't vote . . . that wouldn't be right. But you can! Next week we'll ask you to vote for the viewers' choice awards, so you better write down the ones you love the best!

Pop Doggie Etsy Shop is providing a magnet of the winner's choice, for a prize!

PupsEtc. Etsy Shop is providing a collection of doggy toys for a prize!

The Wooden Giraffe Etsy shop is providing an animal puzzle of choice, for a prize!

Diggity Dawg Etsy shop is providing pet placemats for two prizes!

Pat's Design Etsy shop is providing a key chain and a dog tag, for two prizes!

Heat Press Batting Together is providing rolls of fabric fuser for batting, for several prizes!

Ribbit! Ribbit! I need to rest! That's a lot of sponsors, and a lot of prizes! Thank you very much to all of our sponsors!

Now, here is how our Pet Show will work: You'll be posting your photos of pets on quilts, or pet-themed quilts on your blog, or on your Flickr page. Then you come to our linky party and link up directly to the post with the photo (or the Flickr photo) not just to your blog. We want to jump right over and see your entry --- don't want to have to search for it! (Grin)

UPDATE: Remember, from our previous post, that I said you only make one blog linky in the party --- you could have several photos on your blog for the show, but only one linky entry from each blogger. Sometimes it's hard to translate frog-speak into people-speak! (Grin)

I can see where it may make problems for peeps who have different categories of quilts, tho. So, lets make this amendment to the rules:

You can have one linky entry to a blog, and two linky entries to Flickr photos. I'm hoping that will work for everyone, and we'll all have a good time!

You also need to make certain that you use good blog hop manners and include a link in your post, so that visitors can click and come right back to the Lilypad to see even more fun and cuteness! So be sure to place that "backlink" somewhere in your Pet Show post, or on your Flickr page, OK? We thank you!If you don't have a Flickr page, email us at quiltnsrep at yahoo dot com and we will help out. Please bear with us and we'll get to it as soon as we can!

Our linky party will remain open for entries until August 9 --- that's a wholeweek for peeps to enter their quilts and their furbabies! At that point, the linkies will be closed, and voting will begin. We will leave the voting open through the weekend (through Sunday, the 12th) so that all of our friends can participate. Then, a couple of days later (probably the 14th or 15th) we will have our announcements of winners. Whooo hoooo!

Here are the categories for entries:

dog on quilt or dog themed quilt

cat on quilt or cat themed quilt

other pet on quilt or other pet themed quilt

Best EQ pet theme quilt design

Best Art quilt

I think it will be pretty easy to tell when you enter a quilt in most of the categories.....for the EQ and the Art quilt categories, please mention in your linky title or in your blog post, that you wish to be considered in one of these categories. (For instance, you could include in your title (EQ) or (Art), or you could make sure that you write about it in your post.)Our rules post is here if you have any other questions, or you can email Snoodles if your question is not answered there!

Now, voting has not begun, but you CAN start leaving comments:

1. Leave a comment here and tell me that you have

joined our linky party.

2. If you are a follower, new or old, leave a comment

to let me know. Separate comment, OK?

These are your first two entries in the prize giveaways, so be sure to do this!And if you are not sure that your email addy will show up, include it in your comment --- I sure wouldn't want you to miss out on a prize!!Of course, we are hoping for lots of entries and lots of comments, so please bear with me . . . I might not get to answer all of them. (Kinda hard to get these froggy toes to work the keyboard, ya know!)

When the linky party is closed, you'll be able to earn one more entry by visiting ALL of the contestants, and leaving them comment love. At that point you can leave a comment telling me that you did that. (I'm a smart frog -- don't leave a comment saying you've visited all of them, before the linky party is even closed, OK? Heehee!)

Make sure that you leave comment "love" for the contestant, alright? No meanie comments in this linky party! (Grin)

Also, when the voting begins, you can leave your comment for that -- but we'll post details on that next week, OK?

Now, I think we have covered everything, but if you have a question, just holler! Ribbit!

I've joined your Pets on Quilt Linky Party. I posted a picture of my new Kitty, Elly. As we speak, she's bouncing off the walls.....grin. Hmmmmmmmm do you think she might want some attention......giggle.

This is such a sweet idea. I remember you mentioned it in an email a while back. I don't own a quilt...hanging head in shame. if I did I would happily put Izzy on it and take a photo to share. I send hugs xo

HI miss Lily Pad,I am a long time follower. I think I have all my links fixed on my post. I have not participated in this blog hop before so it was kind of fun finding all the different photos of our cat to go with the post.Regards from Western Canada,Anna

I've been reading about this on your blog for a while but don't think I've really commented (didn't want to enter any competition or giveaway accidentally!) So, I won't be participating but I want to say it sounds really neat. I'm interested to see some of the cuteness!

This is the first time that I have entered in this contest but my image is cut off - please help me with entry #50!! When I was trying to edit the photo it uploaded it to your blog before I could do any editing :-(

Of course, I am a happy follower!! I linked up with the photo, or so I thought. I tried to submit it again through Linky, but it said that my web addy was already used. I didmanage to get the button on my blog, and post a picture there:my blog is callled Ozarkcountrystitchin.blogspot.com

If I am doing something terribly wrong, please e-mail mewigglypup2(at)yahoo(dot)com I would really like to enter andlearn how to do things correctly!!!

I am not a blogger, so can i still enter? I have a quilt I made using Laurel Birch cat fabrics but don't know what category that falls into. I have several cat quilts I want to make, as I have 3 cate, but will probably enter them next year as they are not ready this year. I've never used Flickr-is it easy to do? Do I need to fill out an entry form? What else do I need to do? I feel technology challenged!I would like to subscribe to your RSS feed, but my "computer geek" disabled my Apple email because i have Yahoo email. Thanks

Hi Nellie! I sure hope you check back and see my reply....I tried to reply to your comment, but it didn't work for me.Flickr is super easy...and you don't have to pay, and you don't have to give a lot of personal info! You can sign up in a matter of minutes, and then upload pictures from your computer. Then you just use the URL for your picture location, and enter the show! If you need more help, please email me at quiltnsrep at yahoo dot com and give me an address that I can email you back at, OK? Thanks!

Hi, Snoodles,perhaps you are not going to return to my blog, but if you do: My cat has the name from the Josua-Kadison-Song: Jessie: "she asks me how the cat´s been, I say: Moses he´s just fine..." and so on...I´m happy I made the entry to your party.Hugssigisart

sorry I am late to the party..even my critters are sleeping...Jacque..you did an amazing job here...be pleased with your efforts..way to go girl. ...there are some pretty amazing furry friends that we sew love...can't imagine our world without both of you..x

Hello Lily, I was delighted with his words thank you for your visit, I'm following you. Beautiful things here, good work , congratulationsDid you see my other blog :http://osfelinossaotudodebom.blogspot.com.br/ just for cats friends?? Send me a photo of your beautiful cat that I put there.Good WednesdaySilvia

Need to clarify...I thought I had clicked to "follow you" last week but apparently didn't complete it because your posts weren't showing up in my list. But it is working right now :-) So I'm following and catching up with your posts. I'm "up to date" with the linky's...Love the blog hop. The pictures are great!

I am so happy to hear from you! I try to respond to all comments, but sometimes that just isn't possible! If you don't receive a reply, it may be because your profile is set on "no-reply". Edit your profile, and click "show my email address" and we'll be able to talk!Please don't leave links to un-related blogs or products. That's not good etiquette and they will be deleted! :)